Um-ul-Huda2018-04-092018-04-092017https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/2944Supervised by: Mr. Rao Jaleel AhmedThis dissertation is aimed at analyzing the effectiveness of teaching of phonetic transcription for the purpose of pronunciation development at secondary school level. The inclusion of the part of pronunciation skills has been recently increased in the text books, at secondary school level, with the topic titled as “Dictionary skills”. This project is specifically directed at identifying the current status of phonetic transcription teaching and its learning outcomes in a typical secondary level classroom of mainstream schools of Punjab. The data was obtained in two steps from both students and teachers. A test based on phonetic transcription was conducted at both less-developed area and developed area schools for boys and girls in Lahore. In addition to that, a questionnaire showing a range of 5 options at Likert scale was developed in order to collect data from 44 teachers from public schools. The ultimate goal for this project was to find out the status of teaching and learning strategies in practice for the acquisition of transcription skills.enDictionary skillsPurpose of pronunciation developmentM.PhilThesis